In this article the author begins by focusing on the term "Common Culture" by Raymond Williams to mean a conceptual site in politics. An argument on the logic of democracy in the book "The Democratic Paradox," by Chantal Mouffe is then presented along with a discussion of philosophical interventions toward the redefinition of "politics" or at least the preconditions of political engagement. The author argues that a language and a practice is needed that can connect across a field of anxious cross disciplinary searches for the re grounding of ethics, and morality, second for new models of democratic politics, and, third, for new analytic concepts for critically understanding the social world. (Contains 29 endnotes.)